Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky's ancestral relationship with venerable Paisius Velychkovsky and Chernihivshchyna
Purpose: To determine whether two prominent Ukrainian figures with identical surnames and with ancestors who lived in the Chernihiv region were genetically related. Discoveries about the ancestries of Venerable Paisius Velychkovsky (1722– 1794) and Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky (1903–1973) have adva...
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| Date: | 2021 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Інститут української археографії та джерелознавства ім. М.С. Грушевського НАН України
2021
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| Series: | Сiверянський літопис |
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| Online Access: | http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/181631 |
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| Journal Title: | Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine |
| Cite this: | Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky's ancestral relationship with venerable Paisius Velychkovsky and Chernihivshchyna / (Welleck) George Welyczkowsky // Сіверянський літопис. — 2021. — № 3. — С. 139-155. — Бібліогр.: 20 назв. — англ. |
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Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine| Summary: | Purpose: To determine whether two prominent Ukrainian figures with identical
surnames and with ancestors who lived in the Chernihiv region were genetically
related. Discoveries about the ancestries of Venerable Paisius Velychkovsky (1722–
1794) and Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky (1903–1973) have advanced and curated data
leads to new hypothetical conclusions about their paternal genealogical connection.
Methodology: Findings and conclusions are presented using an anthropological and
chronological approach relying on published works and family archives. Scientific
Novelty: For the first time a documented attempt to jointly explore and profile the
collective origins of Ven. Paisius Velychkovsky and Bl. Vasyl Velychkovsky is made to
determine whether they are genealogically related. Conclusions: Two historically
prominent Ukrainian figures born almost 200 years apart shared the same paternal
surname. Their significance was elevated when Ven. Paisius Velychkovsky was
canonized by the Orthodox church in June 1988, more than a century after hisrelics
were uncovered and found to be incorrupt. Similarly, Bl. Vasyl Velychkovsky was
declared a Christian martyr for his faith in 2001, and thirty years after his death, his
body with the exception of his toes was also found to be incorrupt. Ven. Paisius was
the last living member of his immediate family, thus his immediate family line became
extinct with his passing, while Bl. Vasyl was celibate but had two sisters whose
families exist to present day. While their families’ descendants are limited, a focus on
their paternal ancestors reveals that they both once lived in the Chernihiv region of
Ukraine and that their common surname and its derivations existed in Lithuania prior
to the earliest known occurrences in Ukraine. Surnames of related families to the
Velychkovsky family in the Chernihiv region also existed in Lithuania. Heraldry and in
particularcoats of arm associated with the Velychkovsky surname establish yet
another link to a hypothetical Velychkovsky ancestry dating back to Lithuanian King
Gediminas in the XIV century. Limited but circumstantial evidence suggests they are
both related by paternal descent from a common ancestral nest in Lithuania. The
possibility of scientifically answering the question of whether they have a genealogical
connection using DNA remains a distinct and extant possibility. |
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